HIV positive nurse Philippines for US

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Can a nurse who is HIV positive be granted immigrant visa to work as a nurse in USA? What Should a nurse do to be able to be granted visa? If he is in medication , what shall he do? Can the employer cancel the employment to the extent of denial of the visa if the nurse is found to be HIV positive?

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the international forumHIV I believe is one that is checked for on the medical and may cause denial of visa

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Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.

An HIV test, in addition to a TB test WERE part of the healthcare screening requirements prior to approval of an immigrant visa. However, the president lifted the ban preventing HIV+ individuals from entering as immigrants to the US in January 2010.

See: http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/id_visa/hiv_final.xml

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Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.

erased due to duplicate post

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Thanks for the update

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Thanx for the responses. By the way, how can this be moved to the internationally forum? Just new in the site and i still am orienting myself.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I have already moved it :)

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Hi, we have the same condition...can we contact each other? I am also a filipino and will work in illinois too...hope i can hear from you...

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Hi TS, any news on what happened? Were you able to work in the USA? We're actually in the same situation.

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Same situation here guys, can you give me an update?

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Any update on this?

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Hi. We have the same condition. We're you able to go to the US and work there as an RN?

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